I have no doubt there will be some people who read this substack and say, "but that is not what Dr Oz said." But if you have followed Mehmet Oz for the past 10 years, it is clear what his words mean. And I would also remind you that lots of folks didn't think Trump would enable the elimination of a woman's right to chose. He said he wouldn't (although sometimes he said he would) They didn't think people who had not committed a crime, would be deported to El Salvador... that was only supposed to happen to the bad immigrants, not my friends, not my family.. although Trump claimed "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs," when no one was eating cats or dogs. People didn't think Trump would actually implement tariffs that would make everything more expensive. He promised to reduce inflation. Yup, he sure did, but he had no actual plan for that, however he did have a plan for implementing tariffs. So the thing that was easy, implementing tariffs got done, the thing that is incredibly hard to do, well, he kicked that can down the road because frankly, he doesn't know how anyway.
Folks, Oz will gut medicare and medicaid. He doesn't care about health care and he doesn't seem to care much about people in general. And when the IRS, which has been decimated, collects significantly less revenue this year than they did last year, mainly because reducing the number of auditors has the not surprising effect of encouraging more people to cheat, Trump (and Oz) will use the reduced revenue as an excuse for more budget cuts. And the reality is that if you want to balance the budget, but don't want to increase taxes (as that is the only way to actually increase government revenue) there are only three buckets that will have an impact, defense, social security and medicare/medicaid. As Nobel prize winning economist, Paul Krugman often notes ( this did not originate with him, he just made it famous), the US Government is just an insurance company with an army. Well, guess what, if we are going to invade Panama, Greenland and Canada, then we aren't cutting the army. Plus, Oz just noted we need healthy people in order to staff an army. So that can only mean, yeah, you guessed it, medicare, medicaid and social security will have to be targeted.
So once again for the doubters out there who think, he can't possibly mean what Jen claims, I suggest you look at what has happened over the last ~100 days, and think again.
It seems to be the photos that get flagged...especially the IMDB Nazi picture. Your other posts - including ones about the government are able to be shared.
Amazon is my last resort. I try anything else first: Costco, Target (reluctantly DT dropping DEI) discount online bookstores, other online or local office products, local groceries. Starting now, I will be finding local farmers/ coops/ farmers' markets...
Bezos made my Blacklist when he "thanked" all his (underpaid) employees who made his 1st "spaceflight" possible. OMG. It made me nauseous...
Why didn’t he say: we’re going to make everyone healthier and in less need of healthcare by continuing to reduce lead in water pipes (instead of stopping that initiative, like they just did)? Why didn’t he say we’ll make everyone healthier by continuing to combat the pollution we know impacts health (instead of rolling back air and water pollution regulations and firing people who monitor air and water quality, like they’ve just done)? Why didn’t he say we’ll make everyone healthier by making sure our foods are safe from bacteria and contaminants like heavy metals (rather than firing people who check the safety of everything from hamburgers to baby formulas to imported goods)?
It’s like they’re even abandoning the basics. It’s horrifying to watch this all unfold from up north.
I had a nightmare recently about “othering,” and it’s as if you knew. My husband was born with spina bifida, which now, through medical advances, can sometimes be addressed in the womb. (Which is absolutely fascinating.) He has worked hard his whole life (primarily operating his own businesses but for other companies as well.) A dear friend of mine was born with a congenital heart defect and underwent open-heart surgery as an infant and multiple times throughout her life, including a transplant much later. (Thank you, organ donors.) She owned more than one successful restaurant. I was diagnosed with a condition that ultimately led me to leave the civil service job I held helping the older population navigate public benefits and the wild maze of Medicare open enrollment. You have eloquently (& “ragefully”) pulled the curtain ALL the way back on this sh!t show, and now it appears my worst nightmare is coming true.
While I did have Pandemic on my bingo card, I didn't have the US completely self destructing. America has been slowly disintegrating for decades, but this?
I'm safe - relatively - in Australia, but we're currently two weeks away from a federal election, where one leader has well and truly earned the nickname of Temu Trump. If he wins, we may start sliding down the same path.
I've been watching that, because I have a friend in your beautiful country, and am hoping, praying, and whatever else someone who doesn't live there can do, that it does not happen.
The polls are looking better - and due to compulsory voting, they're more accurate than in places like the US. Dutton currently only opens his mouth to change feet, so the more he's reported on, the more people can see how out of touch he is.
He recently had his 20yo son in front of the camera (in $700 RM Williams boots), complaining that he couldn't afford to buy a house. Dutton has a huge property portfolio hidden in his family trust, and could easily buy his son a house. Not only that, but what 20yo even thinks about saving for a house? Saving to go backpacking - now that's more likely!
Totally agree with your post. The only thing I would add is that the eugenics movement originated in the US and was just adopted by its Nazi admirers. I also have no doubts that at least a third of Americans would cheer on a renewal of euthanasia and concentration camps, as long as the targets were “others.”
Thank you for sharing this. It’s the terrifying truth. I am sitting here on a quiet Sunday morning thinking about all of this and realizing I just can’t get past a doctor who is not empathetic. How can Oz even be a doctor? what happened to him? well greed happened to him and all the other bozos in this administration. money is what they really care about. i am so grateful there were doctors for your son who cared about something else.
Two of my children were born with defects of the urinary tract. They both would have died very young, without surgery. I look back and think how lucky we were that fascism hadn't taken hold, and that there was an air of hope for the country - it was the 70s. I would be afraid to have children today, and I'm also afraid because I am old, an invalid, and definitely, a "useless eater."
Please open your heart to people like my daughter-in-law, who is a trans woman. She was not experimented on as a child, she chose to transition at 22, after years of counseling and with the full consent of her parents. She is off-the-charts intelligent, hard-working, kind and caring, and would by any standard be considered a highly desirable asset to any society that cares more about people than about their gender. Most importantly to me, she is a deeply loving partner to my daughter, and who am I to judge who my daughter loves. Very sadly, my daughter-in-law cannot visit me -- let alone consider living in the United States -- because it's likely they would lock her up and deprive her of her hormone therapy the minute she sets foot in this country. They live in Sweden.
Once you get to know a trans person (and who knows -- you may already have done so without realizing it), you will hopefully come to see that they're just another human being deserving of love, respect and care.
Conner, my heart is open. As I said, I think people have the right to live their lives however they fit. And of course they have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies AS LONG AS THEY'RE ADULTS. But nobody has the right to do this to children.
Let children grow up. Let them go through puberty. Many millions of us have experienced dysphoria of one kind or another in adolescence. It's part of being human. We don't tell anorexics that because they "feel" fat, therefore they are. Of course not. We try to get them mental health help.
So why are we telling children that because they "feel" they were "born in the wrong body" -- an impossibility, a quasi-religious belief -- that therefore they should incur chemical and/or surgical interventions?
EVERYONE is "just another human being deserving of love, respect, and care." I agree. That's why I don't want to see people harmed. And as a woman, I want my single-sex spaces respected.
I'm not going to get into an argument with you about when is the right time to transition. I do want to state for the record that I am a woman who is woman very happy to share my spaces with trans women. Funnily enough, in Europe, where I am from, single sex toilets are very common - even in more traditional countries like Italy. And, people always have the choice of using a private cubicle if they prefer. Single-sex spaces only seem to be an issue in America, and really only in recent years, since the anti-trans witch hunts began.
Since I have been traveling to and throughout Europe for the past 45 years, I, too, have used single-sex toilets. I use them at my gym, which is a tiny gym, not a chain, where we all know each other and don't have to worry about being attacked.
Women prisoners have been and are being attacked by men in women's prisons in the US. This is ongoing. There are many lawsuits about it as we speak. But lawsuits are cold comfort for women who aren't safe in their own spaces and who are being told that to appease men they must pretend those men are women.
Mariah Burton Nelson, a former college and pro basketball player, writes here on Substack. Just a few weeks ago her gym locker room was invaded by a male sex offender. Yes, he'd already been arrested for sexual assault before, but because he now claims he's a "trans woman" he went into the women's locker room. She wrote about it here:
Personally, I don't want to get naked in front of a bunch of men in locker rooms. But perhaps it doesn't bother you. That's fine. It bothers a lot of women.
I'm sorry you've erected a straw man argument, Ellie.
I am a woman. Women are people. Men are people.
I believe everyone has the right to live his or her life in whatever way they see fit -- live how you want, dress how you want, talk how you want, act how you want -- but men do NOT belong in women's single-sex spaces.
It's a shame that gender-non-conforming people aren't being accepted as they are, but are instead being told they have to chemically or surgically alter their bodies to conform to exactly those rigid sex stereotypes that we feminists have been fighting for decades.
This is so disheartening. As a person with spinal cord injury for 34 years in Canada I have already been stunned to see how different life is with a chronic health condition for US citizens without universal healthcare and a social safety net. These changes have already and will result in more deaths of people who cannot speak out. There are such simple, but significant things I can’t avoid as a person with SCI, such as UTUs, bowel dysfunction, etc. combine that with the impact of menopause and I’m a real “drain on resources”. Will this sinking feeling ever end? I can’t even take comfort in saying “well, at least I’m Canadian”. The devolution of health and health research will have a chilling effect globally just when we are making some inroads in improving women’s health outcomes (which are tied to society’s health outcomes). The access to pharmaceuticals will become more difficult, research will, at best, be tainted and biased, contributing to a narrative that sends us backwards.
I wonder how many more television personalities will end up being a part of the American Government? Perhaps Trump spends too much time glued to his set watching re runs of himself on the Apprentice (I could not watch even one episode) and Oz. So far he has with his followers dismantled so much of government resources for the many to line the pockets of the few (and the few can afford health insurance and have qualified medical people at their beck and call). As a Canadian I am personally horrified with the impact the Trump authoritarian government has had on health care (especially women's health). I wonder where his wife is??? The press secretary (I use that title loosely) provides nauseating and combative information every time she opens her mouth...for the salary maybe? Maybe his youngest son who Trump says is very very tall and brilliant with a computer (most kids have no fear of technology) is sharing very odd things with his father. "Eating cats and dogs" could only come from a MAGA perspective. As you mention Hitler did the same thing. Place a warped inhumane idea into the illiterates heads and chaos ensues.
Twenty-some years ago my cardiac surgeon commented that Dr Oz had gone to the dark side. I agreed, thinking selling snake oil would be enough for Oz. How naive of me.
"This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "The Other America" (speech) 1968
History is, sadly, repeating itself. We, as a nation, are going backwards at a furious rate. The middle class has been shrinking for at least 50 years - starting just before Reagan introduced the horrible concept of trickle-down economics, which accelerated the decline. Disparities in healthcare - exacerbated, as you noted, by differences in socioeconomic status - have grown as the cost of healthcare has increased: among the poor, because they put off seeking medical advice as long as possible, increasing the cost of care and reducing its effectiveness, and among the middle class, because the financial cost puts healthcare beyond their reach while their status as "not poor" limits their access to public assistance.
This column seems far afield from your usual topics, and yet, the information it provides is of vital importance. One of the greatest advantages we have today is access to qualified professionals such as yourself who are able, and willing, to provide such information in fora where they cannot be silenced.
To those who tried to share this post on Facebook and couldn't because of the images, I shared the link to the Substack without issue. There's always the possibility that someone will complain and it will be taken down - but that is one way around it. I also posted it to Bluesky.
Thank you, Dr. Jen, for articulating what is at risk and how off this rails this guy and this administration is. I know plenty of people (okay, everyone in my social circle) who are alarmed and paying attention, but it's even more distressing to feel that we have very little power to change this rapid descent into a darker future than any of us can realistically fathom. We're calling our reps, showing up at local protests, but also really holding our breath. I'm concerned about my elders, the young men who are approaching draft age, single mothers, low income families . . . basically everyone I know is vulnerable because we are not in the 1%. I appreciate the education you are doing. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I have no doubt there will be some people who read this substack and say, "but that is not what Dr Oz said." But if you have followed Mehmet Oz for the past 10 years, it is clear what his words mean. And I would also remind you that lots of folks didn't think Trump would enable the elimination of a woman's right to chose. He said he wouldn't (although sometimes he said he would) They didn't think people who had not committed a crime, would be deported to El Salvador... that was only supposed to happen to the bad immigrants, not my friends, not my family.. although Trump claimed "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs," when no one was eating cats or dogs. People didn't think Trump would actually implement tariffs that would make everything more expensive. He promised to reduce inflation. Yup, he sure did, but he had no actual plan for that, however he did have a plan for implementing tariffs. So the thing that was easy, implementing tariffs got done, the thing that is incredibly hard to do, well, he kicked that can down the road because frankly, he doesn't know how anyway.
Folks, Oz will gut medicare and medicaid. He doesn't care about health care and he doesn't seem to care much about people in general. And when the IRS, which has been decimated, collects significantly less revenue this year than they did last year, mainly because reducing the number of auditors has the not surprising effect of encouraging more people to cheat, Trump (and Oz) will use the reduced revenue as an excuse for more budget cuts. And the reality is that if you want to balance the budget, but don't want to increase taxes (as that is the only way to actually increase government revenue) there are only three buckets that will have an impact, defense, social security and medicare/medicaid. As Nobel prize winning economist, Paul Krugman often notes ( this did not originate with him, he just made it famous), the US Government is just an insurance company with an army. Well, guess what, if we are going to invade Panama, Greenland and Canada, then we aren't cutting the army. Plus, Oz just noted we need healthy people in order to staff an army. So that can only mean, yeah, you guessed it, medicare, medicaid and social security will have to be targeted.
So once again for the doubters out there who think, he can't possibly mean what Jen claims, I suggest you look at what has happened over the last ~100 days, and think again.
I tried to share this on FB and they removed my post. Censored. Interesting (and horrifying).
That is awful and it tracks
It seems to be the photos that get flagged...especially the IMDB Nazi picture. Your other posts - including ones about the government are able to be shared.
Same for me. I tried twice and my post was immediately removed. This is the last straw and I will terminate my FB account tonight.
Wow
Oh man - not surprising, but gut-wrenching nonetheless.
So glad (AGAIN!) that I've NEVER been on FB.
Same!
Given FB is blocking direct access to this post. If you want to share it, try posting the following:
"Oz, the Cruel and Powerful, Takes the Reins of Medicare and Medicaid... He hits the gate running with a page out of the fascist playbook"
Read more about it here: www.thevajenda.com
I believe that will work.
Thanks
Todd (Dr Jen Adjacent)
I’ve quit FB. I’ve had it with that prick Zuckerberg and the rest of the broligarchs trying to run our lives. Next up is Amazon. That will be harder.
Amazon is my last resort. I try anything else first: Costco, Target (reluctantly DT dropping DEI) discount online bookstores, other online or local office products, local groceries. Starting now, I will be finding local farmers/ coops/ farmers' markets...
Bezos made my Blacklist when he "thanked" all his (underpaid) employees who made his 1st "spaceflight" possible. OMG. It made me nauseous...
!!!😳😳😳!!!
Same!
Why didn’t he say: we’re going to make everyone healthier and in less need of healthcare by continuing to reduce lead in water pipes (instead of stopping that initiative, like they just did)? Why didn’t he say we’ll make everyone healthier by continuing to combat the pollution we know impacts health (instead of rolling back air and water pollution regulations and firing people who monitor air and water quality, like they’ve just done)? Why didn’t he say we’ll make everyone healthier by making sure our foods are safe from bacteria and contaminants like heavy metals (rather than firing people who check the safety of everything from hamburgers to baby formulas to imported goods)?
It’s like they’re even abandoning the basics. It’s horrifying to watch this all unfold from up north.
Terrifyingly well said Dr. Gunter. Thank you
Excellent essay. To the point with the right amount of anger and alarm. Sending to my class of pre med students.
I had a nightmare recently about “othering,” and it’s as if you knew. My husband was born with spina bifida, which now, through medical advances, can sometimes be addressed in the womb. (Which is absolutely fascinating.) He has worked hard his whole life (primarily operating his own businesses but for other companies as well.) A dear friend of mine was born with a congenital heart defect and underwent open-heart surgery as an infant and multiple times throughout her life, including a transplant much later. (Thank you, organ donors.) She owned more than one successful restaurant. I was diagnosed with a condition that ultimately led me to leave the civil service job I held helping the older population navigate public benefits and the wild maze of Medicare open enrollment. You have eloquently (& “ragefully”) pulled the curtain ALL the way back on this sh!t show, and now it appears my worst nightmare is coming true.
While I did have Pandemic on my bingo card, I didn't have the US completely self destructing. America has been slowly disintegrating for decades, but this?
I'm safe - relatively - in Australia, but we're currently two weeks away from a federal election, where one leader has well and truly earned the nickname of Temu Trump. If he wins, we may start sliding down the same path.
I've been watching that, because I have a friend in your beautiful country, and am hoping, praying, and whatever else someone who doesn't live there can do, that it does not happen.
Thank you!
The polls are looking better - and due to compulsory voting, they're more accurate than in places like the US. Dutton currently only opens his mouth to change feet, so the more he's reported on, the more people can see how out of touch he is.
He recently had his 20yo son in front of the camera (in $700 RM Williams boots), complaining that he couldn't afford to buy a house. Dutton has a huge property portfolio hidden in his family trust, and could easily buy his son a house. Not only that, but what 20yo even thinks about saving for a house? Saving to go backpacking - now that's more likely!
You made me laugh, thank you. "...opens his mouth to change feet..." I'm going to remember that. And, fingers crossed!
Totally agree with your post. The only thing I would add is that the eugenics movement originated in the US and was just adopted by its Nazi admirers. I also have no doubts that at least a third of Americans would cheer on a renewal of euthanasia and concentration camps, as long as the targets were “others.”
I believe you. Watch the glee with which maga people are cheering on the deportations.
Exactly. People who feel oppressed take their humiliation out on others. See post WWI Germany and our country now.
Thank you for sharing this. It’s the terrifying truth. I am sitting here on a quiet Sunday morning thinking about all of this and realizing I just can’t get past a doctor who is not empathetic. How can Oz even be a doctor? what happened to him? well greed happened to him and all the other bozos in this administration. money is what they really care about. i am so grateful there were doctors for your son who cared about something else.
Two of my children were born with defects of the urinary tract. They both would have died very young, without surgery. I look back and think how lucky we were that fascism hadn't taken hold, and that there was an air of hope for the country - it was the 70s. I would be afraid to have children today, and I'm also afraid because I am old, an invalid, and definitely, a "useless eater."
All excellent, except for "people who are pregnant" -- those are women.
And "gender-affirming care" is a misnomer. It's medical experimentation on children, which is just as unethical as anything the Nazis dreamed up.
Otherwise, this post is entirely right on.
Yes, I know I'll bring on a cascade of vitriol; I'm used to it. But for those who are interested, join us:
DIAG -- Democrats For An Informed Approach to Gender
https://www.di-ag.org
Please open your heart to people like my daughter-in-law, who is a trans woman. She was not experimented on as a child, she chose to transition at 22, after years of counseling and with the full consent of her parents. She is off-the-charts intelligent, hard-working, kind and caring, and would by any standard be considered a highly desirable asset to any society that cares more about people than about their gender. Most importantly to me, she is a deeply loving partner to my daughter, and who am I to judge who my daughter loves. Very sadly, my daughter-in-law cannot visit me -- let alone consider living in the United States -- because it's likely they would lock her up and deprive her of her hormone therapy the minute she sets foot in this country. They live in Sweden.
Once you get to know a trans person (and who knows -- you may already have done so without realizing it), you will hopefully come to see that they're just another human being deserving of love, respect and care.
Conner, my heart is open. As I said, I think people have the right to live their lives however they fit. And of course they have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies AS LONG AS THEY'RE ADULTS. But nobody has the right to do this to children.
Let children grow up. Let them go through puberty. Many millions of us have experienced dysphoria of one kind or another in adolescence. It's part of being human. We don't tell anorexics that because they "feel" fat, therefore they are. Of course not. We try to get them mental health help.
So why are we telling children that because they "feel" they were "born in the wrong body" -- an impossibility, a quasi-religious belief -- that therefore they should incur chemical and/or surgical interventions?
EVERYONE is "just another human being deserving of love, respect, and care." I agree. That's why I don't want to see people harmed. And as a woman, I want my single-sex spaces respected.
I'm not going to get into an argument with you about when is the right time to transition. I do want to state for the record that I am a woman who is woman very happy to share my spaces with trans women. Funnily enough, in Europe, where I am from, single sex toilets are very common - even in more traditional countries like Italy. And, people always have the choice of using a private cubicle if they prefer. Single-sex spaces only seem to be an issue in America, and really only in recent years, since the anti-trans witch hunts began.
Since I have been traveling to and throughout Europe for the past 45 years, I, too, have used single-sex toilets. I use them at my gym, which is a tiny gym, not a chain, where we all know each other and don't have to worry about being attacked.
Women prisoners have been and are being attacked by men in women's prisons in the US. This is ongoing. There are many lawsuits about it as we speak. But lawsuits are cold comfort for women who aren't safe in their own spaces and who are being told that to appease men they must pretend those men are women.
Mariah Burton Nelson, a former college and pro basketball player, writes here on Substack. Just a few weeks ago her gym locker room was invaded by a male sex offender. Yes, he'd already been arrested for sexual assault before, but because he now claims he's a "trans woman" he went into the women's locker room. She wrote about it here:
https://strongerwomen.substack.com/p/transgender-man-exposes-himself-in
Personally, I don't want to get naked in front of a bunch of men in locker rooms. But perhaps it doesn't bother you. That's fine. It bothers a lot of women.
I'm so sorry you don't look at women as being people. This is not "vitriol," but sorrow.
I'm sorry you've erected a straw man argument, Ellie.
I am a woman. Women are people. Men are people.
I believe everyone has the right to live his or her life in whatever way they see fit -- live how you want, dress how you want, talk how you want, act how you want -- but men do NOT belong in women's single-sex spaces.
It's a shame that gender-non-conforming people aren't being accepted as they are, but are instead being told they have to chemically or surgically alter their bodies to conform to exactly those rigid sex stereotypes that we feminists have been fighting for decades.
This is so disheartening. As a person with spinal cord injury for 34 years in Canada I have already been stunned to see how different life is with a chronic health condition for US citizens without universal healthcare and a social safety net. These changes have already and will result in more deaths of people who cannot speak out. There are such simple, but significant things I can’t avoid as a person with SCI, such as UTUs, bowel dysfunction, etc. combine that with the impact of menopause and I’m a real “drain on resources”. Will this sinking feeling ever end? I can’t even take comfort in saying “well, at least I’m Canadian”. The devolution of health and health research will have a chilling effect globally just when we are making some inroads in improving women’s health outcomes (which are tied to society’s health outcomes). The access to pharmaceuticals will become more difficult, research will, at best, be tainted and biased, contributing to a narrative that sends us backwards.
I wonder how many more television personalities will end up being a part of the American Government? Perhaps Trump spends too much time glued to his set watching re runs of himself on the Apprentice (I could not watch even one episode) and Oz. So far he has with his followers dismantled so much of government resources for the many to line the pockets of the few (and the few can afford health insurance and have qualified medical people at their beck and call). As a Canadian I am personally horrified with the impact the Trump authoritarian government has had on health care (especially women's health). I wonder where his wife is??? The press secretary (I use that title loosely) provides nauseating and combative information every time she opens her mouth...for the salary maybe? Maybe his youngest son who Trump says is very very tall and brilliant with a computer (most kids have no fear of technology) is sharing very odd things with his father. "Eating cats and dogs" could only come from a MAGA perspective. As you mention Hitler did the same thing. Place a warped inhumane idea into the illiterates heads and chaos ensues.
Where is Melania? Barefoot in some Gold Plated (you finish in your own words...)
NY in a golden tower.
Twenty-some years ago my cardiac surgeon commented that Dr Oz had gone to the dark side. I agreed, thinking selling snake oil would be enough for Oz. How naive of me.
"This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "The Other America" (speech) 1968
History is, sadly, repeating itself. We, as a nation, are going backwards at a furious rate. The middle class has been shrinking for at least 50 years - starting just before Reagan introduced the horrible concept of trickle-down economics, which accelerated the decline. Disparities in healthcare - exacerbated, as you noted, by differences in socioeconomic status - have grown as the cost of healthcare has increased: among the poor, because they put off seeking medical advice as long as possible, increasing the cost of care and reducing its effectiveness, and among the middle class, because the financial cost puts healthcare beyond their reach while their status as "not poor" limits their access to public assistance.
This column seems far afield from your usual topics, and yet, the information it provides is of vital importance. One of the greatest advantages we have today is access to qualified professionals such as yourself who are able, and willing, to provide such information in fora where they cannot be silenced.
To those who tried to share this post on Facebook and couldn't because of the images, I shared the link to the Substack without issue. There's always the possibility that someone will complain and it will be taken down - but that is one way around it. I also posted it to Bluesky.
Thank you, Dr. Jen, for articulating what is at risk and how off this rails this guy and this administration is. I know plenty of people (okay, everyone in my social circle) who are alarmed and paying attention, but it's even more distressing to feel that we have very little power to change this rapid descent into a darker future than any of us can realistically fathom. We're calling our reps, showing up at local protests, but also really holding our breath. I'm concerned about my elders, the young men who are approaching draft age, single mothers, low income families . . . basically everyone I know is vulnerable because we are not in the 1%. I appreciate the education you are doing. Thank you, thank you, thank you.